With Mai Shiranui just being added to Street Fighter 6 less than 24 hours ago, people are already exploring all of the content featuring her. While there’s obviously a lot of focus on her combos and in-game tech, there’s also the matter of figuring out how to locate her and build bond level with her in World Tour.
Thankfully, a video from Umbra shows where you can find the actually incognito Mai and finding out why she’s keeping her identity concealed before unveiling herself.
Capcom did reveal before her release how to meet Mai, but let me regale you with a quick recap. First of all, in order to meet Mai you’ll need to already have Terry as your Master in World Tour mode (details on how to do that here).
Once you’ve managed that, you need to start the Knockout Festival quest line which can be accessed by examining a poster outside of your hangout. When that’s done, walk over to a girl in a hat and glasses named Ichiko Kureno to team up with her for the questline, and then just proceed with the quest itself to eventually reach Mai.
In the main World Tour cutscene, we get to see Mai up to her usual shenanigans and doing what she does best — tracking her beloved Andy Bogard. She also shares some interactions with fellow Fatal Fury guest Terry Bogard before turning her attention to the player’s avatar character.
Once you’ve found her again after this first interaction, you’ll be able to talk to Mai and learn more about her life and dedication to her craft, her beloved and also her beauty — girl’s keeping busy, to say the least.
There are a lot of interesting factoids embedded here, most of which will not be news to anyone who is well-versed in the Fatal Fury or King of Fighters series, but still some nice extra details and summaries of Mai’s general story on how she originally met Andy, what she does in her spare time and also some indications on how she feels about Andy’s less serious brother, Terry.
On top of that, there’s obviously artwork and references talking about her origin series Fatal Fury as well as its sister franchise which tends to be more well-known nowadays, King of Fighters. Lots of various SNK characters show up in these artworks, so it’s a nice time trying to spot them all while listening to her stories.
At one point, she even starts talking about rumors she’s heard about a certain Street Fighter character who also happens to be a ninja…
In case you’re not very interested in World Tour itself, we made a gallery below with some of the artworks featured in the Mai content for Street Fighter 6. There is one extra image at the end that might come off as a bit of a spoiler, though, so if you really want to know what Mai’s final image is, you’ll have to check out Umbra’s video.
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